a href=”http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2010/03/liberal-intolerance.html”Stuart Schneiderman on liberal intolerance:/abr /br /blockquoteLiberalism is not about people; it is about loving ideas more than people. When liberal policies fail, good liberals do not go back to the drawing board. They see themselves challenged to produce a logical contortion that explains why they are not at fault.br /br /When it comes to dealing with those who take exception to liberal orthodoxy, many of today’s liberals are intolerant to an extreme. If liberalism began in the nineteenth century by asserting the value of freedom, today’s true liberals are really libertarians. Old style liberals believed in free markets, free trade, free speech, and the free and open exchange of ideas. Many of today’s liberals believe in none of it./blockquote

Threats have no place in any political discourse in the U.S. — but conservatives can't afford to let over-dramatized threats either paralyze them or goad them into stupidity. (Watch the latest Hicks File, and comment here.)

We can multiculturalize and kowtow all we want, but in the end, it’s the Islamists' way or the highway — unless, of course, they are defeated. Useful idiots like Matthew Modine are not helping matters.

Jeff Goldstein from Protein Wisdom responds to my articlea href=”http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=17581″ on liberals and lack of empathy:/abr /br /blockquoteOf course, to be fair, the “right” exhibits its share of intolerance — which, like that from the left, generally manifests in a kind of ostentatious public sanctimony. The difference is, for all the worry we consistently hear about the “religious right” threatening to turn the US into a theocracy, very rarely will we see any actual agitation for from mainstream conservatives to turn religious doctrine into state or federal law. Whereas the churches of environmentalism and government-mandated “charity” (which isn’t; charity tends not to be backed by fines and guns) have joined up, of late, into fortify the Church of Progressivism, which is very quickly becoming a de facto “official” church of the United States./blockquote

I have a column up at PJM: a href=”http://pjmedia.com/blog/how-should-conservatives-deal-with-the-lefts-disrespect-and-lack-of-empathy/”"How Should Conservatives Deal with the Left’s Disrespect and Lack of Empathy?”/abr /blockquoteGiving in only wastes valuable time that could be put to better use and makes liberals more likely to treat us poorly./blockquotebr /br /a href=”http://pjmedia.com/blog/how-should-conservatives-deal-with-the-lefts-disrespect-and-lack-of-empathy/”You can read the rest here./a

When what is reported is a distorted "media reality," we can always learn to adapt, to distort it back to a semblance of reality — but we lose information. But information is so important that gross distortions are impossible to accept.